Donald L. Drakeman is a Fellow in Health Management at the University of Cambridge, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Notre Dame Law School. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Council of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, where he taught for two decades in the Department of Politics.
He has written several books on law, religion, and constitutional interpretation, most recently, Church, State, and Original Intent, which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His scholarly work has been cited by the supreme courts of the United States and the Philippines.
His next book, Why We Need the Humanities, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. It discusses the importance of the humanities for medical research and civil liberties. Additionally, with a colleague, he is completing a book titled, Following the Map of the Genome: The Future of the Biotechnology Industry.
In addition to his teaching and writing, he was, for many years, an entrepreneur and executive in the biotechnology industry, and he is a Venture Partner of Advent Life Sciences, a London-based venture capital firm. He was named an Ernst &amp; Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and has published numerous articles on immunology and drug development.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Biology, and has served as a member of the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals. He has also served as a Trustee of Drew University, the University of Charleston, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He began his career as an attorney with the firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &amp; McCloy.

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Adjunct Associate Professor

DDRAKEMA

Donald

Kommers

1139 Flanner Hall

574.631.6304

574.631.4197

Donald.P.Kommers.1@nd.edu

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Faculty

Concurrent

Emeriti

American Constitutional Law

Comparative Constitutional Law

Constitutional Courts Around the World

Constitutional Law

Human Rights Law

Law & Religion

Kommers is the author of well over 100 major articles and books, including the widely acclaimed work, The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany, the 3rd edition of which was published in 2012 by the Duke University Press and recently reviewed with high praise in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He is also the co-author of a leading course book, American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes, also in its 3rd edition. His next book, Germany’s Constitutional Odyssey, is expected to be published in late 2015. Kommers has lectured widely in dozens of American colleges and universities as well as at selected universities in Germany, Japan, Austria, Chili, Italy, and Croatia. At Notre Dame, he has served as the director of the Law School’s Center for Civil and International Human Rights from 1976 to 1981 and as the editor of The Review of Politics from 1981 to 1992.
He is also the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, among them an honorary doctor of laws degree from Heidelberg University (Germany), an honorary doctorate from St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin, the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Senior Scholars, and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin which offered him a coveted residential fellowship at the American Academy in 2009 where he continued his work on various aspects of German law and politics. He is also the recipient of major fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Max Planck Society, Rockefeller Foundation, German Marshal Fund of the United States, U.S. Fulbright Program, Andrew Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He has also served as President of the National Conference Group on German Politics and as an advisor to President Carter’s Commission on the Holocaust.
On 8 November 2010, Germany’s Federal President awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his three decades of scholarship on German life and law and for having “remarkably enriched both the American and German legal systems and building a bridge between our two countries as few others have.” More recently, on 26-27 October 2012, the American Academy of Berlin, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Justice, and Berlin’s renowned Institute of Advanced Study cosponsored a symposium in his honor in Berlin. The symposium, which celebrated what was called “his extraordinary body of work in German constitutional scholarship,” was entitled “The Curious Life of the Grundgesetz (Germany’s Constitution) in America.”
Over the years Professor Kommers has taught a wide variety of courses in German and American politics, American and comparative constitutional law, civil liberties legislation, religion and politics, and international human rights law. He earned his B.A. in philosophy and English literature from the Catholic University of America and his advanced degrees (M.A. and Ph.D.) in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also studied law. As Professor Emeritus, he continues to teach in the undergraduate constitutional studies program and offers an advanced seminar in comparative constitutional law in the Notre Dame Law School.
About The Robbie Chair
The Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Chair in Government and International Studies, established in 1976, is the gift of Joseph Robbie in memory of his son, Dr. David L. Robbie, a 1966 cum laude graduate of the University who died in 1976. A native of South Dakota, Mr. Robbie practiced law early in his career in his home state before moving to Minneapolis in 1953, where he became active in urban governmental planning. In 1965, he founded the Miami Dolphins franchise of the National Football League and engaged in numerous Dade County, Florida, civic, charitable and political activities. He also served on the Advisory Council for the University’s College of Arts and Letters. Joseph Robbie died in 1990, and his wife Elizabeth died in 1991.

Constitutional Scholar Donald Kommers Honored in Germany December 5, 2012
Kommers receives high honor from German government – ND Newswire (November 11, 2010)
What distinguishes Germany’s Basic Law from the United States Constitution? Published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, FAZ.NET (May 18, 2009)

Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science andConcurrent Professor Emeritus of Law

Rebecca Ward

DKOMMERS

Douglass

Cassel

2155 Eck Hall of Law

574.631.7895

574.631.4197

Doug.Cassel@nd.edu

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Faculty

Tenured and Tenure-Track

English Legal History

International Criminal Law

International Human Rights Law

International Humanitarian Law

Professor Cassel is a scholar, practitioner and commentator on international human rights law, specializing in issues of business and human rights, regional human rights systems, and international criminal and humanitarian law. His scholarly articles in English and Spanish are published in the United States, Latin America and Europe, and he lectures at universities and conferences worldwide. On behalf of retired United States diplomats, and leading experts on international law, he has filed several amicus curiae briefs in the United States Supreme Court involving the rights of prisoners at Guantanamo and accountability for human rights violations under the Alien Tort Claims Act. He has represented victims of human rights violations in Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Venezuela, and appeared as an expert witness, in cases before the Inter-American Commission and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Professor Cassel has served as Legal Advisor to the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador; Executive Council member of the American Society of International Law; co-chair of the International Committee of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Chair of the Independent International Panel on Alleged Collusion in Sectarian Killings in Northern Ireland; and consultant to the Department of State, Department of Justice, Ford Foundation, the President of the American Bar Association, and non-governmental human rights organizations. In 2000, 2003 and 2012, he was nominated by the US Government and elected by the Organization of American States to four-year terms on the Board of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, of which he was elected President during 2002-04 and again in 2014. He served as President of the Due Process of Law Foundation ("DPLF"), based in Washington, D.C., from 2000 to 2012.
Professor Cassel is also an award-winning commentator. Until 2012 his regular commentaries on human rights were broadcast on Chicago Public Radio and published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. His commentaries have also appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Christian Century, and other publications.
Professor Cassel earned a B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1969 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1972. After serving for three years as a Lieutenant in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, he practiced law for 16 years as staff counsel and later General Counsel of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest in Chicago, where he handled test cases and class actions involving civil rights, civil liberties, consumer and environmental law.
After visiting at Notre Dame in 2002, Professor Cassel joined the faculty in 2005, and served as director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights form 2005-2012. He previously directed human rights centers at DePaul College of Law and Northwestern University School of Law.
His current research interests include the human rights responsibilities of transnational corporations, strengthening of regional human rights institutions, accountability for gross violations of human rights, international law options for combating terrorism, and the history of human rights.

Dwight B. King Jr. joined the Kresge Law Library faculty in 1986 as a research librarian and became head of research services in 1990. He earned his B.A., J.D. and M.L.S. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1977, 1980 and 1981, respectively. Prior to joining the library faculty, he worked at the University of Baltimore as public-services librarian (1981-84) and associate law librarian (1985-86).
Mr. King currently teaches legal research to first-year students. He has belonged to several committees of the American Association of Law Libraries including the Committee on Minorities (member 1985-88, chair 1987-88), the Committee on Recruitment (member 1991-92, chair 1992-93), the Task Force for the National Conference on Legal Information Issues (member 1994-95), Grants Committee (member 1999-2000, chair 2000-01), Appointments Committee (member 2012), and Leadership Development Committee (member 2009-2012, chair 2012-13). He also served as chair of the AALL Black Caucus from 2005-2006.

Associate Dean Ed Edmonds joined the Notre Dame Law School as director of the Kresge Law Library and professor of law in July 2006. Dean Edmonds is the sixth law library director at the Notre Dame Law School. Dean Edmonds is a 1973 graduate of the University of Notre Dame (A.B. – History), and he graduated with an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from the University of Toledo. He served as the law library director at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William &amp; Mary, the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, and the Schoenecker Law Library at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dean Edmonds teaches Advanced Legal Research and Sports Law Seminar, and he has previously taught antitrust law, criminal law, and entertainment law.
Dean Edmonds has been an active participant in professional law library associations. He served as the president of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) and the New Orleans Association of Law Librarians (NOALL). He is also active in the Association of American Law Schools and has served as the chair of both the Section on Law Libraries and the Section on Sports and the Law.
Professor Edmonds primary scholarly interests involves antitrust and labor issues involving baseball. In particular, he has written and spoken about the trilogy of United States Supreme Court cases (Federal Baseball v. National League, Toolson v. New York Yankees, and Flood v. Kuhn) that created baseball antitrust exemption. He is the co-editor of the Hein’s Sports Law Legislative History Series and is currently conducting extensive research on baseball salary arbitration.
In recent years, Dean Edmonds has been a regular speaker at the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture and the Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball sponsored by Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.

Books
Co-editor with Thomas Kettleson and William Manz, Congress and Sports Agents: A Legislative History of the Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act (SPARTA), William S. Hein &amp; Co. (2008).
Co-editor with William Manz, Congress and Boxing: A Legislative History, 1960-2003, William S. Hein &amp; Co. (2005). Volume one includes "Congress Finally Lands a One-Two Combination: A Legislative History of the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 and the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act."
Contributing author. Theater Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press 2004).
Cornering the Market: The Yankees and the Interplay of Labor and Antitrust Laws, Chapter 18, Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays on the Bronx Bombers, Ettie Ward, editor, Carolina Academic Press (2003).
Co-editor with William Manz, Baseball and Antitrust: The Legislative History of the Curt Flood Act of 1998, William S. Hein &amp; Co., three volumes (2001). Volume one includes "The Curt Flood Act of 1998: A Congressional Response to Baseball's Antitrust Exemption."
Articles
Arthur Soden's Legacy: The Origins and Early History of Baseball's Reserve System 5 Albany Gov't L. Rev. 38 (2012).
Contributing author, A Roundtable Discussion for the Digital Age: Brady v. NFL,, Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 1 (No. 2 Summer 2011).
At the Brink of Free Agency: Creating the Foundation for the Messersmith-McNally Decision â 1968-1975, 34 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 565 (2010).
A Most Interesting Part of Baseballâs Monetary Structure - Salary Arbitration in Its Thirty-Fifth Year, 20 Marquette Sports Law Review 1 (2010).
The Impact of Curt Flood's Minor League Baseball Experiences on His Lawsuit Against Bowie Kuhn, 16 NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 62 (No. 2 2008).
Architecture Series: The Intellectual Hub of a New Law School: The Schoenecker Law Library Built for the University of St. Thomas School of Law,_ 8 AALL Spectrum 16 (May 2004).
The University of St. Thomas Law Library: A New Library for a New Era in Legal Education, 13 Trends in Law Library Management and Technology 5 (2002).
The Curt Flood Act of 1998: A Hollow Gesture After All These Years? 9 Marquette Sports Law Journal 315 (1999).
Meet My Mentors-Janet Wallin and Caroline Hariot, 91 Law Libr J. 208 (1999).
Over Forty Years in the On-Deck Circle: Congress and the Baseball Antitrust Exemption, 19 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 627 (1994).
Postsecondary Athletics and the Law: A Selected Bibliography, 5 J.C. &amp; U.L. 65 1977-1979.
Lectures and Presentations
Co-presenter with Michael Cozzillio, “Jackie Robinson, Integration, and the Negro Leagues…More Disguise Than Blessing?”, 25th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York, May 29, 2013.
“Baseball's Interesting Relationship with the U.S. Supreme Court,” 2012 Hesburgh Lecture, Notre Dame Club of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, August 9, 2012.
Co-presenter with Frank Houdek, “Separating Folklore and Myths From Reality: Searching For the Truth,” 24th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York, June 1, 2012.
“Armando Marnsans, the Major League’s First Cuban Star, and His Federal League-National League Fight,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture - 19th Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball, Tempe, Arizona, March 9, 2012.
“The ‘Impeachment’ of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis,” Sports Law Academic Symposium, National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 20, 2011.
Panelist, “Best Practices for Evaluating a New Electronic Resource,” Annual Meeting, American Association of Law Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 24, 2011.
"The 'Impeachment' of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis," NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture - 18th Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball, Tempe, Arizona, March 11, 2011.
"A Look at Baseball's Handling of a 'Fistful of Dollars' - MLB's System of Salary Arbitration," 2011 Hesburgh Lecture, Notre Dame Club of Greater Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, February 24, 2011.
"Charles O. Finley and the Beginning of Salary Arbitration," 22nd Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York, June 3, 2010.
"Arthur Soden's Legacy: The Origins and Early History of the Reserve Clause," NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture - 17th Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball, Tempe, Arizona, March 13, 2010.
"Current Legal Issues in Professional Sports," Notre Dame Law School Continuing Legal Education, Notre Dame, Indiana, October 3, 2009.
"At the Brink of Free Agency - Creating the Foundation for the Messersmith-McNally Decision - 1968-1975," 21st Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York, June 3, 2009.
"The Negro Leagues - Was a Merger Possible?" Panel presentation, "The Integration of Baseball and the Influence of Jackie Robinson Upon the Negro Leagues: Consideration of an Alternative Approach,â Diversity and Sports: The History, The Challenges, and The Future, Deanâs Leadership Forum on Diversity, Widener University School of Law, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 16, 2009.
"Major League Baseball Salary Arbitration in 2009," NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture - 16th Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball Tucson, Arizona, March 13, 2009.
"Major League Baseball's Salary Arbitration," Hot Stove meeting, Oscar Charleston Chapter (Indianapolis), Society for American Baseball Research, Conner Prairie Museum, Fishers, Indiana, February 7, 2009
"The Great Dodgers Pitching Tandem Strikes a Blow for Salaries: The 1966 Drysdale-Koufax Holdout and Its Impact on the Game," William M. Simons, editor, The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture: 2007-2008 (2009).
(This paper was originally presented on June 8, 2007 at the Cooperstown Symposium.)
The Enduring Legacy of Curtis Charles Flood: His Courageous Legal Struggle for Personal Dignity

NBA lockout strips team websites of player images - My Fox8, SunSentinel (Quotes: Ed Edmonds) - July 1, 2011
Dean Edmonds quoted by Douglas Farmer in LA Times article A compendium of corruption: Some of the notorious (and some alleged) scandals in sports history. - June 4, 2011
Dean Edmonds quoted in New York Times on Yankees Logo - April 19, 2011
Dean Edmonds quoted in Post Chronicle on Yankees Logo - April 19, 2011

Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology and Professor of Law